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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.n Results (1 of 2)
Message-ID: <12824@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Dec 88 16:33:22 GMT
References: <633@pcrat.UUCP> <43700047@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <12773@steinmetz.ge.com> <1096@stcns3.stc.oz>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1096@stcns3.stc.oz>  writes:

| Is this guy for real?  (1) unshar, (2) uudecode and (3) uncompress have
| all been posted to the sources groups.  If you can read this, you must
  You may have it, I may have it, but there are a lot of people who
don't have it.
| have them somewhere.  (4) cut is trivial to write, and for all I know
  You find it trivial, others may not.
| has also been posted.  (5) was accomplished by wandering to the nearest
| dot-matrix printer and putting it into 17-pitch mode.  Blimey, even the
| toy printer I have at home can do 17-pitch.  And (6) is unnecessary.

  Perhaps in Austrailia half-meter printers are common. None of the
printers using 8-1/2 inch paper produce anything you want to read with
200 columns on it. Even in landscape mode that's 19 cpi, pretty rough to
read. My point was that for most people it's a six step operation, three
of which may require software not on some systems. How much better to
make it into a two step process, like "print this on an 80 column
printer, there are formfeeds every 60 lines, print the next two postings
and glue together."

  You have been around long enough to have all the tools. I, on the
other hand, have been around long enough to be tired of sending people
tools, and would rather send them something which anyone can use without
neat stuff. Guess that doesn't impress anyone with my high tech way of
doing things, but I want people to be able to use the stuff I post, not
admire it.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me